Joaquin Guzman Loera Research Papers

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Joaquin Guzman Loera also known as the infamous “El Chapo” was one of the biggest Mexican drug lords to walk the northern hemisphere. Joaquin Guzman Loera was nicknamed El Chapo which stands for “shorty” in Spanish. The nickname that he received stuck to him considering he was only five feet and six inches. El Chapo was born in Badiraguta, Mexico. El Chapo was the leader of Sinaloa Cartel, which is “the world’s most powerful drug-trafficking organization.” Joaquin Guzman Loera first entered the drug trading industry as young as a teenager. El Chapo started the Sinaloa Cartel in the year 1989 building it into a global drug-trafficking business. Another thing that El Chapo was known for was his rage of violence, which the actions would have a …show more content…

One of the most recent events that El Chapo received some buzz in the news from was about his escape from a maximum-security prison in his home country. His father most definitely played a significant part of how he became the man he is today. El Chapo was born into a poor family with an abusive father. Which his father was a violent man in El Chapo early childhood, also he was a part of drug trading too. El Chapo had little knowledge because his lack of punctuation and attendance of school for education, which eventually led him to assume his father’s role to trade drugs. The way that he came to his rise started by him selling marijuana for small cash amount. On his way to power, he developed a partnership with another younger drug dealer named Hector Luis Palma Salazar. Joaquin Guzman Loera kept a low profile and wasn’t known by federal attorneys. One significant turn of events happen was that it led his name to receive notice was when his boss was arrest in 1985 for murdering an American Drug Enforcement Agency Agent. Once the United States arrest El Chapo boss, El Chapo was to be as a new face of the Mexican drug …show more content…

El Chapo was one of the most infamous drug lords that didn’t have their voice heard. When El Chapo escaped from prison it was a raining night and he hijacked two cars. El Chapo Guzman states that his Sinaloa cartel isn’t a “top-down corporation but a federation of tens of thousands of criminals.” Out of those tens of thousands of criminals they’re farmers, smugglers, corrupt police officers, and accountants. In 2006, Mexican police reported 11,800 murders, which rose to 22,800 in 2011, and dropped back to 15,600 in 2014. El Chapo is making a statement by when he still is incarcerated he has a significant impact still. While El Chapo remains in jail there isn’t really any significant change in distribution of drug trafficking and murders since he was in